Reading Comprehension

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LIVING IN ENGLAND

Part 3 – The Au Pair

Elena is a nineteen-year-old Hungarian girl. She lives in Primrose Hill, North London and she works as an au pair. She looks after the family’s two children in the morning and after school. During the day, she cleans the house, does the shopping and cooks for the family. Her working day finishes at six p.m. when the parents come home from work. Elena is happy but she knows that she is lucky.

Elena’s story:

It’s very important to find a good family. You can write to them before you get a job. Some families want you to do everything. You work nearly 24 hours a day, seven days a week! My family don’t make me work that much and at the weekend and in the evenings I’m free. I eat with the family, I have a nice bedroom in their house and they take me on holiday. I also get £60 a week ‘pocket money’. It’s OK. Some people get £80 or even £100 but they don’t get food or holidays.

In my free time, I go to a language school to learn English and to meet people. There are four au pairs in my class and I like meeting them. We often go to the park on Sundays but I’m the only one who is free on Saturdays so I can’t see them then. On Saturdays, I usually go shopping in Camden or walk around London.

In the evenings, I use my computer a lot. I can’t listen to music because it wakes the children up. At home, in Hungary, I play the piano but there isn’t a piano here.

I sometimes look on the Internet for music schools but they are all very expensive.

I chat to friends in Hungary and send a lot of emails to them and my family. Two of my friends want to come to London to work as au pairs but I amworried about the idea. ‘My’ family here know people who want au pairs but I don’t know them. Are they kind? Are they friendly? I want my friends to like London and their work, not to be sad.